Linux and Phora Users

[kanethenotorious]

For desktop devices, I've converted to linux for everything except for the music software fl studio, so my main desktop pc dual boots windows and linux. I've found it less bloated, less based on planned obsolescence and more efficient. I feel an operating system should be as light weight as possible and since I'm not pc gaming, Linux gets it done for most internet browsing and word processing (it's just that music program that has me dual booting).

When wine improves I may be able to eventually kill the dual boot.

For non-desktop devices, I used to buy cheap chromebooks but now I buy cheap chromebooks that are modded run linux so they have up to date web browsers.

Have phora users ditched windows?

 

[Macrobius]

I have three devices sitting side by side. A laptop, a windows device I use when I need it, and whatever a paying client sends me.

Be preference, I use ChromeOS + Linux LXC running penguin + cloud virtualization (both Azure and AWS) [ I travelled a lot for 2 years with only a Chromebook and use it for job interviews as well -- never had any problems ]

If I had to pick a Linux distro, I'm a slackware man since the last millennium, have Ubuntu frens [ and pre intel ME hardware to prove it ], and know RH/CentOS well for employment purposes. It's all good, but Virtualisation is essential for COMSEC no matter what you pick, both at home at and at work.

You can run virtualized VMWare on a Raspberry Pi if you want, though you'll want a beefy 200 USD Pi to do it[1]:

[1]:

Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi

Gain foundational knowledge of ESXi technology and understand why it is such a dominant force in the datacenter.

link.springer.com

The guy has free online blogs if you don't want to pay for the book.

My children were all raised on Linux distros. I adopted Xen 2.0 in the early aughties as a hypervisor. Xen 3.0 sucked though, and there have been few good choices since then.

QEMU is being re-adopted by Fortune 500 companies as we speak. Read up on 'airship' [2] It's like that movie, 'castle in the clouds' or whatever the kids say these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky

[2]: https://www.airshipit.org/

 

[Lord Osmund de Ixabert]

OpenBSD, Linux, MS-DOS 6.22 Plus Enhanced Tools (3.5-1.44mb) (which also contains Windows 3.1, which though the precursor to Windows 95 is not really an OS, but a GUI for MS-DOS), Windows XP Pro, Windows 10 Pro (for stuff that doesn't work with Windows XP). One computer is triple boot (linux, openbsd, and windows 10). I also have another computer which I still use for many offline applications; it has windows XP pro installed on it. Then I have a very old computer with MS-DOS, which I use less often, but it still has its uses for me. I also use Virtual box to run various windows and linux Operating systems. If I have to run any version of windows on a virtual machine I always use Windows 7.

I don't use any operating systems outside of BSD, Linux, and Windows. And I still prefer Windows XP and Windows 7 over all the later versions. But I am forced to use Windows 10 for certain programs.